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Wanted Cultured Ladies Only!: Female Stardom and Cinema in India, 1930s-1950s
Neepa Majumdar
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Paperback. Charting the rise of the film star in early Indian cinema Num Pages: 272 pages, 26 photographs. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 431.
Wanted Cultured Ladies Only! maps out the early culture of cinema stardom in India from its emergence in the silent era to the decade after Indian independence in the mid-twentieth century. Neepa Majumdar combines readings of specific films and stars with an analysis of the historical and cultural configurations that gave rise to distinctly Indian notions of celebrity. She argues that discussions of early cinematic stardom in India must be placed in the context of the general legitimizing discourse of colonial \u0022improvement\u0022 that marked other civic and cultural spheres as well, and that \u0022vernacular modernist\u0022 anxieties over the New Woman ... Read more
Wanted Cultured Ladies Only! maps out the early culture of cinema stardom in India from its emergence in the silent era to the decade after Indian independence in the mid-twentieth century. Neepa Majumdar combines readings of specific films and stars with an analysis of the historical and cultural configurations that gave rise to distinctly Indian notions of celebrity. She argues that discussions of early cinematic stardom in India must be placed in the context of the general legitimizing discourse of colonial \u0022improvement\u0022 that marked other civic and cultural spheres as well, and that \u0022vernacular modernist\u0022 anxieties over the New Woman ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
430g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252076282
SKU
V9780252076282
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About Neepa Majumdar
Neepa Majumdar is an associate professor of English and film at the University of Pittsburgh.
Reviews for Wanted Cultured Ladies Only!: Female Stardom and Cinema in India, 1930s-1950s
A brilliant, groundbreaking study that illuminates a heretofore little known era of Indian cinema. Its combination of rich historical research, rigorous analysis, and sophisticated critical insight marks the best, most effective film criticism. Corey K. Creekmur, co-editor of Cinema, Law, and the State in Asia This enjoyable study is the only work of its kind on female stardom ... Read more